RED BANK, Tenn. — A Chattanooga man faces charges after a state game warden says he found evidence that he illegally shot and killed a deer over the weekend.
An affidavit says authorities got a tip on Saturday that 39-year-old Justin Conner had killed a deer with a gun at a home on Henderson Avenue. That’s a relatively wooded area of Chattanooga just south of Red Bank city limits.
A Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) officer searched state hunting records and learned Conner didn’t have a valid hunting license, and had not checked in a deer harvest recently…